Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization (IV'03) Layout Metrics for Euler Diagrams London, England July 16-July 18 ISBN: 0-7695-1988-1
We present an aesthetics based method for drawing Euler diagrams. Aesthetic layout metrics have been found to be useful in graph drawing algorithms, which use metrics motivated by aesthetic principles that aid user understanding of diagrams. We have taken a similar approach to Euler diagram drawing, and have defined a set of suitable metrics to be used within a hill climbing multicriteria optimiser to produce "good" drawings. There are added difficulties when drawing Euler diagrams as they are made up of contours whose structural properties of intersection and containment must be preserved under any layout improvements. In this paper we describe our Java implementation of a pair of hill climbing variants to find good drawings, a set of metrics that measure aesthetics for good diagram layout, and issues concerning the choice of weightings for a useful combination of the metrics.
Index Terms:
Euler diagrams, graph drawing, layout metrics
Citation:
Jean Flower, Peter Rodgers, Paul Mutton, "Layout Metrics for Euler Diagrams," iv, pp.272, Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization (IV'03), 2003 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||